Affiliation:
1. Programmable Biomaterials Laboratory (PBL) Institute of Materials (IMX) Interfaculty Bioengineering Institute (IBI) School of Engineering (STI) Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne (EPFL) 1015 Lausanne Switzerland
Abstract
AbstractThe elegant geometry of viruses has inspired bio‐engineers to synthetically explore the self‐assembly of polyhedral capsids employed to protect new cargo or change an enzymatic microenvironment. Recently, Yang and co‐workers used DNA nanotechnology to revisit the icosahedral capsid structure of the phiX174 bacteriophage and reloaded the original viral genome as cargo into their fully synthetic architecture. Surprisingly, when using a favorable combination of structural rigidity and dynamic multivalent cargo entrapment, the synthetic particles were able to infect non‐competent bacterial cells and produce the original phiX174 bacteriophage. This work presents an exciting new direction of DNA nanotech for bio‐engineering applications which involve bacterial interactions.
Funder
European Research Council
Subject
General Chemistry,Catalysis
Cited by
2 articles.
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